Carline-reinforcing construction.



F. L. IRWIN.

GARLINE REINFORCING CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.17,1907.

913,141. Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

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F. L. IRWIN.

CARLINE REINFORGING CONSTRUCTION.

APPLIOATION FILED 00'1.17,1907.

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UNITED sTAT sr t-TENT curios.

FRANK L. IRWIN, OF COLUMBUS, OH lO, ASSIGNOR TO THE ltALSTON STEEL CARCOMPAN Y, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CARLINI E-RE INFORCING CON STBUG' I/ION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb 23, 1909.

Application filed October 17, 1907. Serial No. 397,885.

' To all whom it may concern:

.' parts Be it known that I, FRANK Ii. IRWIN, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Go lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Car-line- Reinforcing Construction, .of which the following is a specification. v

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of the carline for box cars, especially to the means of reinforcing or bracing the carline when it has become weakened or deteriorated with usage.

In the use of box cars it has been demonstrated that the carline or cross beam at the upper side of the box tends gradually to become loosened from the plates to which it is joined at its ends, and also tends to crack or split longitudinally or diagonally with long andsevere usage. The use to which thebox car is put subjects it to severe strains in all partsof its construction, and when the box is heavily loaded", as it frequently is in practice, the roof and the sides are subject to strains severe enough to twist the frame parts and to tend to pull them apart. The effects ofgsuch strains are first noted at the ]unction of the carline with the plates, and in time a distinct breach is, created at these points. It has been customary 'to secure the ends of the carline in the adjacent ,side plates'by means of tenons. This construction for supporting the roof of a box car has long been employed, and hitherto when the have been strained and twisted 7 through long usage and have thereby lost their efficiency in large measure, they have been cast aside, or repaired in a bungling and unsatisfactory fashion; in some cases it may be that the carline has been removed and a new one inserted, but this requires that the roof or a large section thereof be torn away-and then replaced, which method of repair is not only arduous but also expensive, and in the case of old cars it is too ex ensive to justify its use. At this point my -'1nvention becomes valuable, inasmuch as by its use the carline -may be supported from beneath effectively and neatly and may also construction comprising the carline and its bejhined to the side plates, so that the whole abuttipgside plates is reinforced and rendered "fit for subsequent long and severe usage. The application of my device to a car-line is easy and performed expeditiously, and is also inexpensive.

in the accompanying drawiil s which are hereto attached 'and hereby made a part of this specification, Figure l is vertical transverse section 'through a box 211' at a cal-line showing the position of the parts in use; Fig. 2 shows the carlinc'secured to its abutting plates with my reinforcing means Reference being had to the drawings in which the same numeral indicates the same part. throughout, 1 is a car box built upon the stringers 2, with the roof 3 in place; the I roof is formed in the oi dinary manner with a ridge t from which it slopes in both directions, and rests upon the construction at the upper sides of the ends of the car and the carlines 5 disposed at intervals along the upper side of the car box,- the carlines 5 are secured at their ends in the plates 6 and 7, which are secured in the said frame of the box on its upper side. has been secured in the plates by means of tenons shown at 8 and 9; the carline is formed with its upper face sloping in both directions from the center thereof as appearsat 10 and 11, and is provided in its upper face with the recesses shown at l2and 13, in which recesses are fitted the purlins 14 shown in Fig. 3, upon which the roof is laid.

When the carline through usage has pulled loose from the plates and the car box has thereby become weakened, I provide for the repair of the same by the use of my reinforcing means shown at 15; this consists of it rolled angle having the upwardly extending flange portion 16 and the laterally extending flange portion 17 the flange portion 17 at its ends being bent downwardly to form the extensions 18' and 19. Bolt holes 20 are provided at intervals in the flange 16, and at 21 are shown bolt holes in the depending extension 19, similar ones being shown in the depending extension 18 at the oppo- Usually the carline nut in the usual way.

sile end of the cerline. In Fig; 5 1 Sim??? modified form of reinforcing construction, in which the same is rolled into it ihshepe having the side portions 22 and 23 and the bottom portion 2 1*, and the depending extension 25 at the end thereof, The construction shown in Fig. 3 is adapted to he pieced against the side of the earline 5 along lower edge thereof, the bolts 27 are then in- Stl'l(l through the holes 20 into the cerline itself, and preferably through the same and u re secured on the other side by the threritletl This construction makes the reinforcing means see" and quick of application. At the ends of the rein-forcing angle 15 the depending extensions 18 M111 1!) engage the inner faces of the plates 6 anti? respectively, and are firmly secured thereto by means of the bolts shown at 26. in the use of the modified form shown in Fig. 5, the lower edge and sides of the Callline are embraced by the reinforcing means while the depending extension 25 engages the inner face of the plate as above described. in this manner the carline supported in its normal position and is also securely tied to the plutes at its ends, the flange portions 15 and to are formed oi sutticient Width to engage the face of the csrline and the feces of the plates firmly and to furnish rigid supports to the structure.

It will be noted that the reinforcing means can rezs (lil y be formed of any desired length,

so as to he-applicsble to car boxes of any dimensions; the reinforcing means will be applied thereto Without removing any por lion of the-car construction, since the WOTl-I men may enter the car door in the usual manner and carry into the car box the reinforcing means or angles, and Will apply the same to the face of the cut-line and to the the upper edges oi its inner faces of the plates by merely-boring cer be ing inianct and the snppt nieens hei led the 'plicetion of my reinfor of es eci-sl value for ear boxes have rese repair is nestled, irs thereon which n inasmuch as a car stage is deteriorating in other construction also.

The chief :t'estnre of that it may he strengthen and repel moving withon ofthe cer'hc-x; cheaply and simply con ire to reinforce the c: struction so that they in e subjected afterwards to 1011;! and severe use What 1 claim is:

in e box having I i line eztteiuling trans re secured to said plate ing metallic angle n applied to the out its length, the 0 arranged zitn riglt n shill cerliue; anti hnvin gage the inner sides of st ti p for sec: iring sziitl reinfo cing said first flange to tli tlllll for securing said reinforcing member to said plates through snibl bent eml members,

whereby said cttrhne reinforced anti re-- paired. v

in testimony whereor in the presence of two 5 

